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Exactly What Seger Wants

Using Seger’s Art of Adaptation, I realized I hadn’t a clue how to fit visually fit Sir Gawain (or rather his emotional ambiance, his struggle) into the collage. Perusing Seger’s different suggestions on how to adapt print literature into visual cinema, I landed on something that clarified how Sir Gawain should be represented. Seger suggests that when we look at a character, we pose the question, “What does the character want?” This is intentionality. For me, this term enwraps the stylistic quality of exact, as well as Calvino’s quickness. Once an intention is declared, a story arc begins; this story arc won’t be complete until the character realizes his or her intentions. For Sir Gawain, his intentions are being challenged. He wants to follow his desire into the arms of Lady Bertilak (the lady of the castle and also the Green Knight’s wife), but he also wants to be honest and chivalrous to the lord of the castle who has been so generous. There is even a third intention of loyalty to King Arthur that comes into play, and stretches Sir Gawain in different intentional directions.

I began to visualize his internal struggle (which represents the exact in the narrative) as a divided intentionality, where Sir Gawain stands in the middle, his sword to his left and the lady’s kiss on his right. Sir Gawain’s intentionality is tested by the Green Knight, who sees him as valiant, but easily swayed. Sir Gawain fails because he does not share with the lord (the Green Knight) of his daily kisses from the lord’s lady. Ultimately, he chooses the woman (or desire) over the sword (or chivalry and knighthood). 

                                                                       

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